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Quebec politics is taking some interesting twists and turns.
On a recent CBC Radio program The Current, with Anna Maria Tremonti, Jonathan Kay, National Post Managing Editor and a fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, insisted that the shooting at the Parti Quebecois victory rally in Montreal, on September 4th is not connected to politics.
It is claimed that Canada has universal health care. Unfortunately, that is an overstatement.
The important issues are ignored and tensions needlessly aroused.
During the week prior to police opening fire and killing 34 miners at the Lonmin mine at Marikana in South Africa's North West province, on Thursday August 16, ten people were killed in clashes with police. Over 200 mineworkers remain in police custody, arrested after the deadly August 16th crackdown.
A long version of the headline question would be something like this: Given that in the 46th year of Israel's occupation of the West Bank Jewish settlers are continuing to consolidate their hold on the territory's land and water resources by stealing more and more of both, thus demonstrating not only Zionism's contempt for international law but, also, that the only peace Israel's leaders are interested in is one that requires a complete Palestinian surrender to Zionism's will, is there any real prospect, in any foreseeable future, of justice for the Palestinians?
In sharp contrast to the United Church's recent decision to boycott products from the Israeli settlements, the Harper government and Jewish organizations such as of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs continue to support Israeli violations of Palestinian human rights and international law in the occupied territories.
Last week in Canada, in the province of Quebec Richard Henry Bain shot and killed Denis Blanchette, who was trying to prevent him from entering the building where Pauline Marois was addressing her Parti Québécois supporters following the Quebec election in which her party won the most seats. The Canadian media reported Bain is bipolar. Isn't that the explanation for his behavior? Need we look further? Yes, we must.
The NDP victory in the Kitchener-Waterloo byelection Thursday sends a message to all three Ontario parties and their leaders.
Can we finally say the thing we have not said so far?
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